Posted on 10/01/2019 8:55:22 AM PDT by CaptainK
Amber Guyer guilty of murder, Just announced on FOX News
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Similarly, I am asking myself how did she enter the apartment at all? Was the door left unlocked? How do you come home tired from a shift and break into someone else’s apartment and not realize its not your own?
he was eating ice cream! what does that smell like?
I dont believe that for a nanosecond.....
There are different degrees of murder. Not all of them require premeditation. I do not believe she was convicted of premeditated murder. From everything I’ve read this was a good trial, good judge, good jury. The best was made of a terrible situation. That man should be alive today.
She didnt notice the furnishings .....and the furniture arrangements......were different?
If his front door was unlocked and the apartments are substantially similar in floorplan, I can see this happening - she wouldn't have been focusing on furniture or cooking smells - just the guy who wasn't supposed to be in "her" apartment.
It sounds like she was tragically ill-suited to carry that gun... but it doesn't make this a murder. Aggravated manslaughter, absolutely.
Jurors will now resume deliberating to decide Guyger’s punishment.
In Texas, murder carries a punishment of five to 99 years or life in
prison. The charge is not eligible for probation.
You can just see how every murder trial would play out from this point forward ...
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: "So let's wrap this case up, members of the jury. The defendant was wearing a mask on his face and carrying a gun in the liquor store because he thought it was Halloween ... and he was going to a costume party dressed as an armed gunman. Never mind that it was the 4th of July weekend, not Halloween. His watch didn't adjust for Daylight Saving Time, or something like that. He thought he was carrying a toy gun, not a real one. And he thought the liquor store was his own apartment, and this poor guy Sanjeep Patel was an intruder, not the owner of the store. If you cannot prove that the defendant WASN'T acting in 'self defense,' then you must acquit him."
But arent cops trained to take in all the details?
That explanation does not hold water.
she broke into the guy’s apartment
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Depends upon one’s definition of ‘broke in’
Another vote for negligent manslaughter.
This was just “racist” motivation. She must be a racist because the victim was black, ipso facto she lynched him on purpose.
There has been a lot of debate on various FR threads about whether she should have been charged with murder or manslaughter. In the end, she walked into someone else’s apartment and shot and killed the occupant. Maybe he punishment will not fit the crime; maybe it will. I just know that on this planet, there are lots of people deserving of pity and help, like those little kids on the Shriner’s Hospital commercials, or the kids at St. Jude’s. Amber Guyger is really way down my near the bottom of my list. Maybe she’ll find something redemptive to do with the rest of her life.
Oh I got it too.
I have lived in “furnished apartments” where the furniture WAS all alike. So, yes. It happens.
Yep. Also, shooting someone not posing any threat at all is suspicious as hell.
It's when she's aggravated, and she can't plead it down to just PMS.
plus they let in a bunch of her texts about her affair which had zero to do with the charge...inflamed the jury..
Good
Her excuse was she thought there was a burglary in progress. Police protocol is to step away and call for backup. She went in alone with guns a blazing.
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...and somehow that crafty burglar had changed all the furniture and pictures in the apartment and was brazenly watching TV.
Murder? She intentionally went there to kill him? Everything I heard is that she drunkenly went to the wrong apartment and thought he was a burglar.
Ehhh - with the other posters - manslaughter definitely.
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